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...Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve was one of a shoemaker's family of six. Born in Montreal, he was ordained a priest at 23. For the next 23 years he taught philosophy, morals, liturgy and canon law at the University of Ottawa. Then in 1930 he was named Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. A year and a half later he was made Archbishop of Quebec; hardly more than a year after that, a Cardinal. Never in Canadian ecclesiastical history had anyone risen from priest to Cardinal so fast...
...Where Were We? In Gravelbourg, Sask., seven days after a child was born to Peter Lorenz Hornung and Mary Anne Dash Hornung, a child was born at the same hospital to Lorenz Peter Hornung and Mary Anne Rach Hornung...
When His Holiness Pope Pius XI dismembered the Canadian Archdiocese of Regina last year and gave 24,000 Roman Catholics their own diocese of Gravelbourg, he chose as first bishop a 46-year-old priest named Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. Last week the Pope elevated Bishop Villeneuve from Gravelbourg to Quebec-a prodigious leap in the hierarchy, for the Archbishop of Quebec (most venerable see in North America) is traditionally made a Cardinal. Untraditionally youthful, Archbishop Villeneuve is regarded as certain to get, at the next papal consistory, the red hat of Quebec's late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal...
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